1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

Thanks.

I don't mind Perry King here, although I thought he was stiff in some of his later primetime soap work (admittedly he was only meant to be a baddie or stiff in those).

Jean is doing the heavy lifting.

There are some good moments here, like the quiet reveal of how broke the family is, but it may have been too morose for where primetime soaps were heading.

That era sure loved the incest undertones...I don't even know if you can call them undertones here. I wonder if Perry and Mary would have been revealed as not being siblings.

Why is Melanie Griffith credited in that video?

You’re quite welcome and I agree with many of the points you raised. The incest line was wayyy too blatant lol.

And yes, I have memories from King on Melrose. Not so good lol.

Interesting to see the movie was written by Stirling Silliphant. Silliphant was in the twilight of his career by this point but of course no stranger to heavy and at times gothic melodrama from his earlier TV work—see Route 66 as the most prominent of his work. But I don’t if he still had the energy to deliver a weekly serialized series as opposed to episodic work.

44 minutes ago, Khan said:

I agree. Even KL would become less middle-class in the next year in order to keep up with DALLAS, DYNASTY and FC.

Thanks, @soapfan770 , for the tag!

You’re quite welcome. I’m sure if ABC had picked this up they would have probably ordered to be tooled more like Dynasty.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by soapfan770

Thanks for the tag @soapfan770

The 1980s had a lot of these soapy movies/miniseries that were pretty much pilots for primetime soaps.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by kalbir